24th Daily Record of Year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – Aug 19 2013

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August 19 (Day 231) saw the 24th Daily Record of the Year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent.

Day 231 Sea Ice Extent was 950,000 sq km higher than the 30 year mean.

2013 has a chance at catching 2006 and 2012 for the number of daily records set in a year.

Year No of Records
2008 125
2010 115
2006 27
2012 27
2013 24
2007 21
2009 8
2004 5
1998 4
2000 4
2005 3
1979 2
1980 1

Click graph for bigger. Data is here.

Antarctic_Sea_Ice_Extent_Zoomed_2013_Day_231_1981-2010

Staggering 20% Increase in Surface Solar Radiation Due to Cleaner Air In Just One Decade

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"Clean-air policies in developing countries have resulted in reduced levels of anthropogenic atmospheric 
aerosol pollution. Reductions in aerosol pollution is thought to result in a reduction in haze and 
cloud layers, leading to an increase in the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface, and ultimately, 
an increase in surface temperatures. There have been many studies illustrating coherent relationships 
between surface solar radiation and temperature however, a direct link between aerosol emissions, 
concentrations, and surface radiation has not been demonstrated to date. Here, we illustrate a coherence 
between the trends of reducing anthropogenic aerosol emissions and concentrations, at the interface 
between the North-East Atlantic and western-Europe, leading to a staggering increase in surface 
solar radiation of the order of ∼20% over the last decade."

Abstract here.

Clean air legislation really got going in the late 1970s.

Antarctic Sea Ice Increases When It Gets Colder!

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Paul Homewood has blogged about a surprising admission from a paper published on the NOAA website.

They’ve admitted that if it gets colder in Antarctica there is more sea ice extent and when it is warmer there is less sea ice extent.

“this work not only debunks some of the fanciful arguments of warmists, it also suggests that temperatures in Antarctica have been falling since satellites started to monitor sea ice levels in 1979.”

Read about it here.

 

5th Wettest July in USA History – NOAA 2013

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With all the claims about 2012 being the worst drought in USA history (total joke), I thought I would mention that July 2013 was the 5th wettest July ever according to the NOAA.

Only 1950, 1958, 1992 and 1915 were wetter. July 2013 was .71 inches above the 1901 – 2000 average. July 1930 was the driest.

The 1895 to 2013 trend for precipitation in July is 0. Flat. No trend at all. Perfectly average.

Year To Date precipitation for 2013 is 23rd wettest. 1.54″ above the long term average.

NOAA_July_2013_USA_Precipitation

NOAA 30th warmest July in USA History (even with all the massaging)

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Even with all the manipulation of NOAA data to cool the past and warm the present, there were 29 July’s warmer than July 2013 in the USA according to the NOAA.

These July’s were warmer than July 2013.

1901,1917,1921,1930,1931,1933,1934,1935,1936,1937,1939,1954,1955,1964,1966,1977,1980,1988,1998,1999,2001,2002,2003,2005,2006,2007,2010,2011,2012

1936 was the 2nd warmest. 1934 was the 4th warmest. And 1901 was the 6th warmest. According to the NOAA. I suspect 1936 was really the warmest, but NOAA data says otherwise today.

The USA population (along with UHI) has risen from 128 million in 1936 to 319 million.